Thursday 9th February

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£2m Share Sell-off By Chief Executive Has WH Smith Sliding
www.thisislondon.co.uk

Raising capital to buy herself more property, according to a company spokesperson

Amazon's Profit Drops 57% As Heavy Spending Continues
online.wsj.com

Operating expenses rose 38%

B&N to ink first overseas Nook deal with Waterstones?
www.crainsnewyork.com

Barnes & Noble is developing a partnership with U.K.'s Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. to sell the digital tablet in its 300 locations this year

Costa Prize: Andrew Miller Takes Award For Novel Pure
www.bbc.co.uk

Andrew Miller has won the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year Award for his novel Pure, set in a Parisian cemetery in the run up to the French revolution

Subsidies cannot, and should not, save independent shops

A Call For A Unified E-book Market
www.publishersweekly.com

You buy a dedicated e-book reader like a Kindle or a Nook and you're locked in to that company's content

Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
www.guardian.co.uk

Publishers face secrecy over sales and an absence of industry-wide data to help them plot strategy

In Praise (And Defense Of) The Venerable Paper Book
www.pacificfreepress.com

Defend Paper Books Against the Electronic Menace!

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Parenting Guru Bryan Caplan Prescribes Less Fuss – And More Fun
www.guardian.co.uk

Economist Bryan Caplan argues that nurture counts for so little that parents can 'cut themselves a lot of slack'

Sir Patrick Moore: In Tune With Music Of The Spheres
www.independent.co.uk

He played piano with Einstein and counts rock icons among his friends. But for Britain's best-loved astronomer, the stars in the sky are all that matter

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Obituaries

Peter Burton
www.independent.co.uk

Writer and publisher who championed gay literature for over 35 years

Michael Legat
www.booktrade.info

And what, asked Michael, do they do in publishing? "They read books and go to cocktail parties," said the Careers Master, which sounded like just the sort of thing Michael had in mind.

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'Digital Drop Ship' Logistics and Commerce
bookseller-association.blogspot.com

Power in the ebook supply chain is shifting firmly into the centre - to the aggregators

Apple Vs Amazon In Ereader Format Smackdown
www.theregister.co.uk

Two rich, powerful and mighty West Coast tech companies could soon end up as gate-keepers to the world's literary works

Are open rights activists really in favour of returning to the age of the Victorian gentleman artist? Do they really want to undermine the creative input of those outside of the elite? That is the inevitable consequence of unsupported creativity

It's Good To Be Back
www.danutakean.com

This flat earth journalism helped create a sense that digital distribution of books had finally tipped over

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